This list of murdered Queers is one of our most visited sections. It contains information on every gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or intersexed person we are aware of who has been murdered since Matthew Shepard was killed on October 12, 1998. We also include people who were murdered because their killers thought they were Queer . Some pictures are included but we need many more. If you have any pictures to add, if we have left anyone out, or if you have more information we can add, please email Allan.

It has been said that we made Matthew Shepard unwillingly into a media ambassador during and after the five days it took for him to die. Matthew Shepard was an imperfect, great gay guy, on track to become a world class ambassador of some kind. That was a major dream for him. He was also probably a "nester" regarding family values. He was murdered in a crime of opportunity by violent heterosexual people who had dehumanized gay people. He wouldn't have been targeted by his murderers that day if he was a heterosexual; a human being.

His murderers had no history of kidnapping, torture, murder, or armed robbery. Out of all of the GLIBT people murdered because they are Queer, we did not choose Matthew Shepard to use as our ambassador because of politics. He became an ambassador all on his own, to speak about these murders, as life and death would have it.

Our own creative, huge-winged "angels" used sheets to block Fred Phelps and his supporters from the sight of those attending the funeral services for Matthew Shepard. Fred's "protest" at the funeral was reported on, and "tut-tut"-ed over, but there were no supportive heterosexual counter-protests, or roaring motorcycles to drown out their vile shouts. Nor were they there for the many years Fred continued picketing our funerals. The heterosexuals did not act against Fred until he was picketing the funerals of dead U.S. military members.

During the five days it took for Matthew Shepard to die, and after, no one else was more suited or willing to speak on his behalf, and about the ongoing threats to ours. Part of his parents' journeys since his murder have been shared by them with us, keeping alive Matthew's memory and work. He's doing great as our Ambassador, and we'll eventually have the "Matthew Shepard" anti-bias crimes legislation to record one of his accomplishments.

What a day of accomplishment and grief that will be for his parents.

It has been said that anti-Queer murders are rare, that we "used" photogenic Matthew Shepard -- sort of picked him out of a line-up composed of all of the gays murdered around that time as a "pretty white boy martyr" (a very contradictory proposition: a line-up of coincidentally and politically timely murdered rarities) -- to advance our dangerous gay agenda toward the Constitutionally mandated protection of our equal rights.

These pages began as a demonstration to you and us (even an erratic one) that murders of gay people in the U.S.A. -- for that reason -- are not rare.